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2020’s Biggest Stories in AI

By
Christopher Thissen
,
Data Scientist
and
|
January 26, 2021
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This is a shortened version of an article on InsideBIGDATA.

2020 provided a glimpse of just how much AI is beginning to penetrate everyday life. It seems likely that in the next few years we’ll regularly (and unknowingly) see AI-generated text in our social media feeds, advertisements, and news outlets. The implications of AI being used in the real world raise important questions about the ethical use of AI as well.

So as we look forward to 2021, it is worth taking a moment to look back at the biggest stories in AI over the past year.

GPT-3: AI Generated Text

Perhaps the biggest splash of 2020 was made by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model. GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3) is an AI capable of understanding and generating text. The abilities of this AI are impressive—early users have coaxed the AI to answer trivia questions, create fiction and poetry, and generate simple web pages from written instructions. Perhaps most impressively, humans cannot distinguish between articles written by GPT-3 and those written by humans.

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